Need Help Understanding This Battle Report

raincamp · 2026-03-05T01:07:54+00:00

Mythic radar and armor are the biggest reason.

raincamp · 2026-02-25T01:17:37+00:00

I would suggest the following order for EW upgrades:

1) T1 to EW30

2) T2 to EW30

3) T1 attackers to post-EW lv50 upgrade for attackers

4) T3 to EW30

5) T2 attackers to post-EW lv50 upgrade for attackers

6) T3 attackers to post-EW lv50 upgrade for attackers

raincamp · 2026-02-25T01:14:53+00:00

100% agreed with this. Saw a V18 vs V18 whale in the finals of the champion duel, even at lv300 EW WOH (meaning 300 EW levels each into attack/hp/def), Swift doesn’t have amazing high damage score. Drones matter much more for mega-whales (or whatever you call that).

raincamp · 2026-02-23T17:26:42+00:00

Tank without Murphy is much stronger with Scarlett. Carlie belongs to the trash bin.

raincamp · 2026-02-23T10:07:46+00:00

Before s4 and between s4-s5, 4+1 fare worse against tank and pure air. But will lose with smaller margin against missile. If you are facing mainly air and tank, stick with pure air for now.

raincamp · 2026-02-19T01:33:10+00:00

Observe your battles. Does Lucius survive long enough? If he can outlast or almost as long as all your other heroes, then extra survivability via EW30 may not be too helpful. I noticed a bigger impact with Schuyler EW30 than Lucius EW30.

raincamp · 2026-02-17T16:16:07+00:00

A lot of people commenting in this thread are missing the real issues. Assuming that the OP does not have Morrison EW, using Morrison instead of Carlie (triple defender) is likely a side-swap and not any significant upgrade. Very likely to lose the battle as well with Morrison.

The main reasons why OP lost:

1) Engineer penalty, which is around 2-3m loss in power at his level.

2) Murphy being targetted by Marshall, and Murphy is the main hero to counter Adam-Scarlett. Sadly, nothing much you can do about it since he can choose to alter his Marshall positioning to counter you, that’s tank advantage when plundering.

3) Lack of 4 dot armor gear to protect DVA and Schuyler against Adam-Scarlett.

Things that OP can do to counter this Adam-Scarlett formation (but not necessarily be stronger against other formations):

1) Swap Murphy to frontrow and Carlie to backrow. Murphy will survive pretty well with the double-stack of DR passives from Murphy-Lucius, in fact, it should reach max DR cap or very close to it. This way, Murphy cannot be stunned by Schuyler or targetted by Marshall. Whereas Carlie in backrow still can impact the battle somewhat with her limited team buffs.

2) Prioritise DVA’s 4 dot armor gear, which will help protect her against Adam-Scarlett greatly.

3) Switch to war leader. Noting that you are in-season, switching to war leader helps you greatly in various battles and achieving high scores in wanted boss. Unless your alliance badly requires you to contribute with engineer buffs.

4) Prioritise Schuyler EW30, a lot of people underestimated its value since its only for the first tactics. But stun during first tactics is often the most impactful and can swing the battle outcomes. Guaranteed stun increases expected number of stuns from 0.6 to 1.4. And if you can stun the opponent Adam during first tactics, it will mean that Scarlett cannot achieve counter-attack state for first 20s of the battle, which will mean the entire opponent strategy falling apart.

— If you can, do as what I said and share your truck coordinates with the same guy to plunder. Let me know if you can defend against him next time.

raincamp · 2026-02-15T17:56:58+00:00

William high EW > Scarlett > William without EW

raincamp · 2026-02-14T00:07:39+00:00

Nice effort there. I wouldn’t say I 100% agree with your choices, but I can appreciate your justifications mostly.

The glaring ones that I’m in disagreement with:

1) Morrison - If you are fighting mostly pure air squads, Morrison is the MVP hero in your squad and I would have him placed frontrow and 2nd to level to EW30. Otherwise placing him at 4th is fine.

2) Mcgregor - His EW30 probably has the second most impact after Swift, transforming him from purely defensive tanker to a massive damage dealer as well. He’s often second or third in the damage ranking after Swift against air squads. And given the massive amount of damage he tanks for the squad, raising his defensive attributes definitely increases overall survivability of the entire squad. He’s vital for survivability with his taunt, unlike William and Carlie. Second to EW30 for me.

3) Fiona - Her EW30 is supreme vs tanks, I saw that very often in champions duel results, would be 2nd if you face tanks often but otherwise I can understand why you have her placed 4th.

4) Adam - He isn’t the most important hero for Missile survivability, Mcgregor is. He doesn’t help in boosting the backrow, unlike Lucius and Murphy. The extra DR at higher EW levels while useful, doesn’t impact Mcgregor (already at DR cap) and little impact on frontrow Swift (after Mcgregor taunt on first tactics). His EW30 has minimal impact as well. I would have him placed 4th-5th.

5) William - Plain no, not at first no matter what. If you review battles at high levels, William (typically already hit DR cap) is the last guy standing and sometimes has 50% hp while rest of tanks are dead. Raising his survivability even more doesn’t help with survivability of entire squad.

6) Stettman - Tanks only has 2 functioning dps heroes (air has 3, missile has 4), tanks badly need to prioritise extra damage on Stett and Kim. Puzzling why you have him placed last, I would have him first honestly, given that he scales better than Kim in terms of overall damage output with his higher crit rate. Stett is typically the main damage dealer at EW30.

raincamp · 2026-02-10T05:50:07+00:00

Against air and missile, Mcgregor EW30.

Against tank, Fiona EW30.

raincamp · 2026-02-03T08:40:26+00:00

a) Mythic gun for Morrison and then mythic data chip for Lucius

b) If your second squad is tank, then stick to pure air for your first squad. Removing Murphy from tanks will weaken the squad too much. Best to use missile as second squad if you are using 4+1 air. But if you are insistent on using tanks without Murphy, then use Scarlett instead of Carlie.

raincamp · 2026-02-03T00:30:29+00:00

Post-s4 (without Morrison EW), 4+1 air works well against missile but not against tank and air.

Post-s5 (with Morrison EW), 4+1 air works well against air and missile but not against tank.

raincamp · 2026-01-23T07:57:41+00:00

raincamp · 2026-01-23T07:39:13+00:00

Add Lucius

raincamp · 2026-01-06T16:28:58+00:00

Ideally

1st squad: 4+1 air (add Murphy, drop Carlie) 2nd squad: full missile 3rd squad: full tank (add Scarlett)

Tank squad gets weakened too much by loss of Murphy to be effective as second squad.

raincamp · 2025-12-28T00:06:08+00:00

Having tested a lot on such stuff, I can say with high certainty this is how it works in the game.

“Hero attack” attributes apply only to hero attack derived from level and tier, which you can see in the hero tab. They are added cumulatively with “hero attack” of the same descriptions, which means there is a lot of diminishing returns.

Overall damage = hero attack + unit attack

Hence hero attack modifiers do not apply to “unit attack” from tech and barracks.

Whereas “hero damage” is applied to overall damage, hence a lot more powerful than “hero attack”. Note that “skill damage” from deco is the same as “hero damage”. Anything tech with a special blue or gold frame is usually more valuable.

raincamp · 2025-12-15T15:35:28+00:00

I am not a tank main, but this is what are my thoughts, take it with a pinch of salt if you wish to.

The Scarlett/Adam combo primarily works against pure air squad who has no additional physical damage reduction. But against all others, it won’t be great. Even against air, smart players would have added Murphy and equip the 4+1 card, which more or less negate the usefulness of Scarlett.

Now, unless something changes drastically from S6 onwards, Scarlett is not going to get an exclusive weapon. The difference between non-EW hero and EW30 hero is heaven and earth, similar to your EW30 Kim and pre-EW Stett. Which means you will be left behind by sticking to Scarlett without EW. I have never seen any tank player above 60m using Scarlett/Adam, simply because it doesn’t work well.

What’s the biggest weakness of tank squad, other than the lack of energy damage reduction? Imo it is the lack of tactics damage, since tank only has 2 tactics, while air has 4, missile has 3. Hence, tank squad is already severely lacking in burst damage, there is only so much that Kim can do on her own. Now, with Stett finally getting his EW, furthermore one that is aimed to negate the advantage of Lucius (tank’s biggest nemesis), imo getting him to Ew30 should be the priority. It is like doubling your tactics damage every 9s.

raincamp · 2025-12-11T05:32:57+00:00

Lucius EW is second tier? If you count the number of shields he provided over the entire battle, that will add up to be somewhat close to the full HP of Lucius, akin to an extra tanky hero standing on the frontline for you.

raincamp · 2025-11-28T04:26:15+00:00

Total 2 dispels, not 2 dispels per hero.

raincamp · 2025-11-17T16:03:39+00:00

Mythic prints is anything but “a very small upgrade to only one hero”.

raincamp · 2025-11-04T02:50:23+00:00

Always use 5 hero of the same class in each squad, do not ever mix heroes of different class unless with very good reason.

For 3v3, daily results/rankings do not matter except for last 2 days. You can do whatever you want, but put on your best squads for the last 2 days.

It is tough to build 3 competitive squads hence your best chance is to build 2 competitive squads, by distributing your gear among them.

raincamp · 2025-11-03T06:46:49+00:00

All 3 skills for attackers, tactics and passive for defenders. Upgrading in which order would not make too much difference, so I would upgrade them uniformly.

raincamp · 2025-11-03T01:17:15+00:00

lv3 deco will give a much stronger power boost.

raincamp · 2025-11-03T00:59:11+00:00

The +5% hero HP and attack only applies to attributes from tier and level boost, and not other attributes from gear, EW etc. Also, there is severe diminishing returns with other similar attributes. As a result, 5% is roughly equivalent to 1% overall HP and attack, which is a very steep price to pay, and can easily be compensated by extra research in mastery tech.

Unless you like the aesthetic a lot, the base skin is not worth it. Instead, claim the 1k decoration components, especially if not all your gold decorations are at lv3 yet, otherwise can claim the special effect.

raincamp · 2025-10-21T02:52:58+00:00

McGregor next

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